From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Date: Thu, 30 Jun 2022 06:50:43 +0000 (+0200)
Subject: improve the volatile write cache section
X-Git-Tag: draft-hellwig-nfsv4-scsi-layout-nvme-03~13
X-Git-Url: https://www.infradead.org/git/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=6d0f4bf0ba3e917c014e65d31775a721e69d9808;p=users%2Fhch%2Fscsi-layout-nvme.git

improve the volatile write cache section

From David Black
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diff --git a/scsi_nvme_middle.xml b/scsi_nvme_middle.xml
index 1cc23e7..ff861fc 100644
--- a/scsi_nvme_middle.xml
+++ b/scsi_nvme_middle.xml
@@ -203,9 +203,11 @@
       the Volatile Write Cache Enable (WCE) bit (i.e., bit 00) in
       the Volatile Write Cache Feature (Feature Identifier 06h)
       (see Section 5.27.1.4 <xref target="NVME-BASE" />) is set.
-      If a write cache is enabled on a NVMe device used as a storage
-      device for the pNFS SCSI layout, the MDS MUST use the NVMe FLUSH
-      command to flush the volatile write cache.
+
+      If a volatile write cache is enabled on a NVMe namespace used as a
+      storage device for the pNFS SCSI layout, the pNFS server (MDS) MUST
+      use the NVMe FLUSH command to flush the volatile write cache to
+      stable storage before the LAYOUTCOMMIT operation returns
     </t>
   </section>
 </section>